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• Question:• What is a Dynasty?• Answer• A long line of rulers from the same family

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• Question:• Which part of the Chinese population gained more

rights and was able to enter the workforce for the first time once Mao gained power?

• Answer• Women

Topic 1: 600

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• Question:• The majority of China’s huge population live in what

part of the country: northern, southern, eastern, western?

• Answer• Eastern

Topic 1: 800

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• Question:• A regional version of a language is called a:• Answer• Dialect

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• Question:• China specializes in crafts made out of:• (6 total; 200pts for each correct response)• Answer• Bronze, Jade, Ivory, Silk, Wood, Porcelain

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• Question:• MC - China’s current population:• Answer• 1 billion• 1.1 billion• 1.2 billion• 1.3 billion

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• Question:• Chinese art often contains _________, a form of

decorative writing• Answer• Calligraphy

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• Question:• The two major religions of China are:• Answer• Buddhism and Daoism

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• Question:• MC - 92% of Chinese identify their ancestry as ______,

and speak _________, the official language of China

• Answer• Han; Sichuan• Han; Mandarin• Qin; Sichuan• Qin; Mandarin

Topic 2: 1000

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• Question:• Pop Culture items in China include:

(250pts for each correct response)• Answer• Martial Arts; Table Tennis; Mah-Jongg; Karaoke

Topic 3: 200• Question:• MC - WHO led the Chinese Revolution of 1911?• Answer• Sun Yat-Sen• Mao Zedong• Chaing Kai Shek• John Lennon

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Topic 3: 400• Question:• True or False: Mao Led the Nationalists on the Long

March to avoid being slaughtered by the Communists• Answer• False

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Topic 3: 600• Question:• Why did the civil war between the Nationalists and

Communists stop in 1937? (must answer BOTH parts!)• Answer• Japan invaded China, so both groups started fighting

against the Japanese instead

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• Question: REPEAT at very last slide also!• What two important things did Deng Xiaoping do in

the late 1970s that helped kick-start China’s economy? • Answer• He allowed some private ownership of business, and he

allowed outside nations to invest in China

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• Question:• What was happening in certain parts of Asia and

eastern Europe that led students and workers to form the Tiananmen Square Protests in 1989? (must answer BOTH parts!)

• Answer• Communism was being challenged and was crumbling

in the USSR and its satellite countries, so people in China wanted a similar fate in China

Topic 4: 200• Question:• The two groups that struggled for control of China

from 1927 thru 1949:• Answer• Communists and Nationalists

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Topic 4: 400• Question:• Leader of the Communists was ________________;

Leader of the Nationalists was _________________• Answer• Mao Zedong• Chaing Kai Shek

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Topic 4: 600• Question:• According to Mao, who were Reactionaries?• Answer• Former Nationalists or any opposition to the new

communist government in China

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Topic 4: 800• Question:• China only had two “allies”, or friends in its early years

as a new communist nation. Name them.• Answer• Soviet Union and North Korea

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Topic 4: 1000• Question:• THREE important details about the Chinese

Revolution of 1911:• Answer.• Led by Sun Yat-Sen• Ended the Dynasty era in China• Resulted in a Republic in China

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Topic 5: 200• Question:• Where the Nationalists fled to after losing the civil

war in 1949:• Answer• Taiwan

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Topic 5: 400• Question:• This was issued during the Cultural Revolution,

and all citizens were expected to carry it: • Answer• Little Red Book

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• Question:• Temples with multi-storied towers and upward-

curving roofs are called:• Answer• Pagodas

Topic 5: 800• Question:• The population in China over the last 50 years has

shifted from _________ to ________• Answer• Rural (farms) to Urban (cities)

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Topic 5: 1000• Question:• Four main problems in China today:

(250pts for each correct response)• Answer• Population• Pollution• Poverty• Poor Education

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What two important things did Deng Xiaoping do in the late 1970s that helped kick-start China’s economy?

AnswerHe allowed some private ownership of business, and he

allowed outside nations to invest in China

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